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Apr 20
2011

What Makes The iPhone Location Logging Story So Bad?

Science

Following up on my previous post about iOS 4 powered devices logging your every move, I just noticed this story from Time: The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has accused the MSP of using devices to extract information from the cellphones of drivers they’ve pulled over without the owner’s knowledge, thereby violating […]

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Feb 25
2011

The “Climategate” Hoax Hoax!

Politics

Republicans went on a rampage last year claiming that scientists the world over engaged in the historically largest act of collusion ever to coax the world into believe the climate was in trouble. Now we are finding out (yet again) that these people on the right were trying to dope the world into believing their […]

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Feb 14
2011

Breitbart’s Been Served

Media

Andrew Breitbart got a special surprise at CPAC this weekend: Blogger Andrew Breitbart has been sued by former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod who contends her reputation was damaged by Breitbart’s posting last year of an edited video. The New York Times reports today Breitbart was served with the lawsuit at CPAC Saturday. Sherrod […]

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Jan 21
2011

Should Your Social Media Rants Be Cause For Dismissal From Your Job?

Society

An interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal addresses the growing trend of employers firing workers over postings on such sites as Facebook. Next week the National Labor Relations Board is expected to rule in the first case of this type. The article then goes on to describe other cases of this type where people […]

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Jan 3
2011

Where’s The Proof, Darrell?

Politics

We have heard for months the chest beating of Darrell Issa, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Now it’s gone from chest beating to down right slander: The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight calledPresident Obama‘s administration “one of the most corrupt administrations” on Sunday and […]

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Nov 18
2010

A New Round Of Palin Defenses

Politics

Yesterday news broke that Willow Palin, the 16 year old daughter of 1/2 term governor Sarah, took to Facebook in a homophobic slur rant against someone who complained about Palin’s reality show: During the premiere of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” Sunday night — a boy named Tre who went to school with the Palin kids wrote […]

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Nov 12
2010

McCain–VS- McCain

Society

Don’t you just love a little domestic drama? Sen. John McCain’s wife Cindy appears in a new ad that harshly criticizes the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and government officials and religious leaders generally, over what she and others describe as complicity in the bullying that has led to a rash of highly-publicized suicides […]

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Nov 10
2010

Tucker Carlson’s Childish Games

Media

Earlier this week the gossip site Phawker posted an email exchange between Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News and Keith Olbermann. The exchange started with this email from Keith Olbermann: “Dear Stu, Since you’re obviously a moron, I won’t waste your time or mine writing more emails you clearly can’t understand. But I do […]

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Nov 8
2010
get out of jail free

Too Rich To Prosecute

News

Get ready to be pissed to the point of wanting to break stuff: A Morgan Stanley wealth manager will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because Colorado prosecutors don’t want him to lose his job. Martin Joel Erzinger, who manages more than $1 billion in assets for Morgan Stanley in Denver, is being accused […]

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Nov 5
2010

Mixed Feelings On Olbermann

Media

By now I’m sure everyone has heard that Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely from MSNBC for contributing to political campaigns without disclosing those contributions to his superiors at MSNBC. There has been a lot of back and forth over this decision in the blogosphere and twitterverse today. I have mixed feelings on the story. […]

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